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Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically

By : RAHUL AGARWAL, Waleed Arshad
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Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically

By: RAHUL AGARWAL, Waleed Arshad

Overview of this book

Flutter is a cross-platform user interface (UI) toolkit that enables developers to create beautiful native applications for mobile, desktop, and the web with a single codebase. State management in Flutter is one of the most crucial and complex topics within Flutter, with a wide array of approaches available that can make it easy to get lost due to information overload. Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically is a definitive guide to starting out with Flutter and learning about state management, helping developers with some experience of state management to choose the most appropriate solutions and techniques to use. The book takes a hands-on approach and begins by covering the basics of Flutter state management before exploring how to build and manipulate a shopping cart app using popular approaches such as BLoC/Cubit, Provider, MobX, and Riverpod. Throughout the book, you'll also learn how to adopt approaches from React such as Redux and all its types. By the end of this Flutter book, you'll have gained a holistic view of all the state management approaches in Flutter, and learned which approach is the best solution for managing state in your app development journey.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Basics of State Management
4
Section 2:Types, Techniques, and Approaches
8
Section 3:Code-Level Implementation

Chapter 1: States and State Management Overview

This chapter is an introduction to the core concepts of states and state management in Flutter. You will learn the basic important concepts of a state in Flutter and how it affects your application in general. You will also learn about state management, what it is, why it is necessary, and the advantages of using it in your application.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • What is a state?
  • Why is studying states important?
  • What is state management?
  • Why do we need state management?
  • Choosing the best state management technique

This chapter is going to show you why you need to study state management in order to build better, stable, and scalable Flutter applications. By the end of this chapter you will have a grasp of the following:

  • The concepts of states and state management in Flutter
  • The importance of studying and applying state management in Flutter
  • How state and state management are interrelated to each other